A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall Category: Friendship

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. Robert Hall Category:

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. Robert Hall Category:

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. Robert Hall Category:

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Robert Hall Category:

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Robert Hall Category:

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. Robert Hall Category:

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. Robert Hall Category:

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. Robert Hall Category: